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Maria Catharina Prestel

Virtue Surrounded by Allegorical Figures

Description

Maker

Maria Catharina Prestel (German, 1744-1794), printmaker
After Jacopo Ligozzi (Italian, 1547-1626), designer

Title

Virtue Surrounded by Allegorical Figures

Year

mid 1700s-late 1700s

Medium

etching,
aquatint

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

etching,
aquatint

Materials

aquatint

Supports

Medium weight cream wove paper mounted on medium weight cream wove paper

Dimensions

44.4 x 31.3 cm (17 1/2 x 12 5/16 inches) (plate)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Edgar J. Lownes Fund

Object Number

74.076

Type

Prints

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Tombstone

Maria Catharina Prestel (German, 1744-1794), printmaker
After Jacopo Ligozzi (Italian, 1547-1626), designer

Virtue Surrounded by Allegorical Figures, mid 1700s-late 1700s

etching; aquatint

44.4 x 31.3 cm (17 1/2 x 12 5/16 inches) (plate)

Edgar J. Lownes Fund 74.076

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